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Anyone heard of iSSD?

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fohfoh:

--- Quote from: iindigo on August 24, 2010, 12:47:42 AM ---I could also see these things being used in portable music players where size and form factor are major concerns (i.e. the customer is looking for a small device with a decent capacity).



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Does it really need those levels of speed for such a product? I can see "maybe" in a pmp... but a normal music player...

iindigo:
Perhaps not, but if this technology becomes inexpensive enough, it might replace plain old flash memory.

fohfoh:

--- Quote from: iindigo on August 24, 2010, 02:28:57 AM ---Perhaps not, but if this technology becomes inexpensive enough, it might replace plain old flash memory.



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That's a given. Though it's like thinking that Blurays will get rid of DVD. I think there's going to be a parallel for a while, but who's to really say?

Nikaido:

--- Quote from: fohfoh on August 24, 2010, 02:35:28 AM ---That's a given. Though it's like thinking that Blurays will get rid of DVD. I think there's going to be a parallel for a while, but who's to really say?

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Kind of like the parallel for VHS & DVD. Took them 10 years to stop making VHS's. This is between the time that Twister-1996 came out (first dvd released) and History of Violence-2006 came out (last mass production VHS released). They still make VHS's for new releases, but they're collectibles, like The House of the Devil.

ON TOPIC: I don't even want to think about the price of the 64GB card when it first gets put on the market.

Freedom Kira:
I was thinking it was aimed more at tiny form factor (extra small) netbooks... and perhaps really high-powered smartphones.

And yeah, for the time being it'll probably be super expensive, but I'm expecting it to fall to a consumer-affordable range within a couple years.

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